Pd-list February 2003

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Re: [PD] PD 4 EM
by CK 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

I read: > grown much from the time and effort of its users, but it's typically only > used by a certain kind of techie person. i really think that pd could well face it pd is a programming language, how many programming languages are used by people that don't qualify as a "certain kind of techie person" ? > become more of a mainstream type of software in teaching, music production, > and in art. this would only happen with a huge pouring-in of new users. no, it happens when you start to teach it, make music with it or use it in your installations etc... We use it a lot in our school * to introduce basic programming concepts * to present basic dsp theory * showing how to hook up pd/gem/pdp and a bunch of shell, python, php scripts as a basis and a flexible framework for all sorts of media art projects. regards, x -- chris(a)lo-res.org Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/ special effects. (Jeff Keuss / via ctheory.com)

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PD 4 EM
by Jim Aikin 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

I've been assigned to write a feature on Pd for an upcoming issue of Electronic Musician. This will be mainly introductory -- letting people know that Pd exists, what it can do, what it's like to work with it, etc. The feature will be much stronger if I have some input from folks in the Pd user community. If you have 30 seconds, I'd love to get some feedback or commentary on the following points: 1) What do you use Pd for? Have you used it in any performances or recordings you'd like others to know about? 2) Are there musical tasks that you feel Pd is *not* especially well suited for? What are they? Are there limitations you're hoping will be addressed in future updates? 3) What are your favorite online resources for learning Pd and/or extending it? Thanks in advance for any and all responses. I can't promise to quote you directly in the article, but your feedback will be incredibly useful. --Jim Aikin

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xsample - (xgroove~->print) connection failed
by patrick 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

hi, running pd with windows, i've installed xsample.dll and load it correctly : xsample objects, version 0.2.4, (C)2001,2002 Thomas Grill xsample: xrecord~, xplay~, xgroove~ - send objects a 'help' message to get assistance now, when i load xgroove~.pd i get the following error : xgroove~.pd 31 5 70 0 (xgroove~->print) connection failed what do i need to install (nothing in the readme) patrick

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more questions about bonk~
by David McCallum 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

How many samples does it take bonk~ to spit out an attack from the point that it receives the audio? I'm using bonk to dump info from an xrecord~ into a buffer, but I'd like to find out where in that buffer the attack happened. At the moment I'm just guessing that it's the "about 6ms" that it says in the bonk~ helpfile. . . David McCallum . Music wants to be free . http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/ .

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Re: [PD] PD 4 EM
by Jeffrey Hildebrand 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

i agree with you to an extent. pd has seen a lot of success and has grown much from the time and effort of its users, but it's typically only used by a certain kind of techie person. i really think that pd could become more of a mainstream type of software in teaching, music production, and in art. this would only happen with a huge pouring-in of new users. scott > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:04:41 -0800 (PST) > "J. Scott Hildebrand" <jshildebrand(a)ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > > if they don't make it, then it's likely you'll never hear > > another record from then again... and if pd doesn't "make it," it'll never > > improve and it'll become old dusty software that very few people use. > > Sorry Scott, but this statement is completely ridiculous. Pd itself is a direct contradictory example to what you're saying. > > Regards, > > Chris. > _________________________________ > chris(a)mccormick.cx > http://www.mccormick.cx > http://www.sciencegirlrecords.com > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list mailing list > PD-list(a)iem.kug.ac.at > http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list >

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launching 2 pd's with -asio on win2k causes 100% cpu usage
by Josh Steiner 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

this was really ugly, i accidentally launched a second instance of pd when i already had one running. my asio driver complained that the driver was already in use, and my cpu pegged to 100% ... i very very slowly shutdown both versions of pd (taking about 30 seconds to switch to another window) and now my system is all happy again... is this unique to my asio driver (it *is* a beta driver) or is this a pd bug? can anyone else out there using win2k/asio try this to see if you get the same problem? i'm using pd 0.36 ... -josh ____________________________________________________ independent u.s. drum'n'bass -- http://vitriolix.com

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Re: [PD] PD 4 EM (fwd)
by J. Scott Hildebrand 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

i didn't think of sending my reply to jim's email to the pdlist also, so i'm doing it now. scott ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: J. Scott Hildebrand <jscotth(a)mailbox.ucdavis.edu> To: Jim Aikin <midiguru23(a)sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: [PD] PD 4 EM Hey Jim! I'll write some responses after each question. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jim Aikin wrote: > I've been assigned to write a feature on Pd for an upcoming issue of > Electronic Musician. This will be mainly introductory -- letting people > know that Pd exists, what it can do, what it's like to work with it, etc. > > The feature will be much stronger if I have some input from folks in the > Pd user community. If you have 30 seconds, I'd love to get some feedback > or commentary on the following points: > > 1) What do you use Pd for? Have you used it in any performances or > recordings you'd like others to know about? > I'm doing spatial audio research at UC Davis in California. I'm an undergraduate student studying music and computer science. Pd is an environment that invites art and technology to come together, but it's a STEEP learning curve and might not be accessable to the non-tech-savvy. It's a very useful programming environment for me because it's open-source, low-latency, real-time, and graphical as much as it can be. I do a lot of programming "under the hood" but all of the control knobs/sliders are all built in... so is all of the audio in/out. The project I'm specifically working on utilizes HRTFs (Head Related Transfer Functions), convolution, and headtracking to spatialize and move around a sound in 3-D space. > 2) Are there musical tasks that you feel Pd is *not* especially well > suited for? What are they? Are there limitations you're hoping will be > addressed in future updates? > I think that as a synthesis program, it could be a bit more attractive. Maybe modeling it a bit after Native Instruments' Reaktor would be a good thing, and maybe make it a little easier for purely artist-type people to get involved. > 3) What are your favorite online resources for learning Pd and/or > extending it? > http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/ http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/index.htm http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/ http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/ -Scott Hildebrand UC Davis, CIPIC Interface Lab > Thanks in advance for any and all responses. I can't promise to quote > you directly in the article, but your feedback will be incredibly useful. > > --Jim Aikin > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list mailing list > PD-list(a)iem.kug.ac.at > http://iem.kug.ac.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list > -------------------------------------------------------------------- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Pd with 2 soundcards (Linux/Alsa)
by Frank Barknecht 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

Hallo, I'd like to dj with my shiny new laptop and Pd. The laptop has a crappy intel_810 onboard chip and will get a quality USB stereo external box this weekend (probably the Edirol UA-20, any comments?) to work with ALSA. While dj'ing, I thought of using the onboard chip to prelisten tracks, and use the USB for the audience. Now I wonder, if anyone already did something like that and if it would be technically possible at all. I was thinking of an ~/.asoundrc setup as described on http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3?module=usb-audio Can Pd use such a multi-device? Or how would you dj with Pd? ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

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Re: [PD] Re: [PD-announce] PiDiP 0.8.4 [ more streaming ]
by CK 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

hi yves and others, I read: > grrr, ffmpeg is changing all the time. I use some of the pidip objects quite a lot esp. pdp_rec~ but I don't use the ffmpeg stuff at all at the moment so I basically just remove it from the makefile and comment out the setup stuff. Would you consider forking out the ffmpeg stuff into a seperate lib so people less comfortable with editing makefiles and source can take ad- vantage of your latest versions ? regards, x -- chris(a)lo-res.org Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/ special effects. (Jeff Keuss / via ctheory.com)

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question about bonk~
by Matthew Nish-Lapidus 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

hi, is there any way to trigger bonk~ manually? for instance, if the signal isn't quite right, but you still need bonk~ to send out data? also, does anybody have a help patch for bonk~? there doesn't seem to be one in the pd distro. matt.

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